India, June 22 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday described the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's decision to rename Suhrawardy Avenue as Gopal Mukherjee Road as a "historic" move, saying it would help correct a long-standing historical wrong.

However, the decision has sparked a political controversy, with opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the CPI(M), arguing that the avenue was named after Sir Hassan Suhrawardy, a distinguished physician, academician and former Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University, and not after Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the politician often associated with the Direct Action Day violence of 1946.

In a post on X, Adhikari welcomed the move, stating: "I commend the hist...